You did the hard part on Tuesday. This is the bit nobody coaches you through, what a feeling actually wants, before the biscuit answers for it.
This week, I shared with you the bit you maybe didn’t want to hear: naming the feeling won’t stop you from eating the biscuits. And it was never meant to. You found the word, you did exactly the work, and then you ate the biscuits anyway and decided you’d failed.
You hadn’t. But it left the question hanging, the one you all wrote back with: so what do I actually DO with the feeling once I’ve named it?
This week’s pod is that answer. The bit that comes after the naming, the sticky place, almost every woman gets stuck on.
What’s in this episode:
Why naming the feeling was only ever step one and the move that comes next
The difference between answering a feeling and fixing it (and why fixing keeps you at the cupboard door)
The one question to ask once you know what you’re feeling. Not what to do about it. What it wants you to know.
Why “just sit with it” and “just journal it” both collapse at 9pm, and what holds when you’re running on empty
The most personal thing I’ve put on here: what my own anxiety was really asking me for last year. It wasn’t food, but I was eating giant chocolate buttons and Maltesers as if they’d save me.
Why you can name it, eat the biscuits anyway, and still have done it exactly right
The announcement I’ve been sitting on, and where the whole method is about to live
Your one move this week. Not five. One.
This is the work I do with women one to one, broken down small enough to use right now.
Timestamps
00:35 — The feelings you’ve been answering with food (and why it’s normal, not a flaw)
01:55 — Why naming it is step one of several — and what June was really for
03:56 — A named feeling isn’t asking to be fixed. It’s asking to be answered.
04:36 — Nobody starts a project at 9pm — which is exactly why food keeps winning
05:29 — The one question: not “what do I do?” but “what do you want me to know?”
06:38 — The year I’ve barely spoken about, and what my anxiety was actually after
08:32 — “Dismissed” — one real feeling, walked all the way through
09:23 — When hearing yourself out is enough to unhook you from the cupboard
11:38 — You named it and ate the biscuits anyway. Why that’s still a win.
13:07 — Wiring a brain that meets a feeling without going to the kitchen first
14:26 — The announcement: where the Stress Eating Solution is going to live
17:59 — A few of you, this summer: the done-with-you version
18:34 — The kitchen’s been translating for you for years. Here’s the handover.
One thing to take into your week.
A named feeling isn’t asking to be fixed. It’s asking to be answered. The biscuit just answers fastest, never best.
That’s the whole job this week. If you do nothing else, do that.
Want the rest of the method?
What to do with each feeling, the response that meets each one, the protocol that finally breaks the loop, that’s the Stress Eating Solution. It’s being folded into the Dieting Differently membership, piece by piece, all summer.
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And for a small handful of you
I’m opening a few 1:1 spaces this summer. The done-with-you version of all of this. Not open yet, small on purpose. Keep your ear to the pod and you’ll be first to know.
Send this to one woman who calls it stress when it isn’t. Most of the women I work with were sent here by a friend who said “you have to listen to this.” That’s how the work spreads.
If it hits home, please tap the like so I know to keep making these.
See you next week for the next article.
Georgia x
p.s. The worst blanket “just stop emotional eating” advice you’ve ever been handed,drop it in the comments. I’ll start: “just sit with the feeling.”
p.p.s the next podcast is you q+a so any questions from this months articles, pods or what you’ve been working on, drop them here for me to get them not just answered but coached!
